Many of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.

Mahayana Buddhism was far more successful in China than its rival Hinayana, and both Indian schools and local Chinese sects arose from the 5th century.

Mahayana Buddhism was far more successful in China than its rival Hinayana, and both Indian schools and local Chinese sects arose from the 5th century.

Both Sunnis and Shias were welcome at court, and members of both sects gained high office.

Both Sunnis and Shias were welcome at court, and members of both sects gained high office.

But to the student of mental philosophy it may be specially interesting to remark that Hutcheson both applies the principle of association to explain our ideas of beauty and also sets limits to its application, insisting on there being " a natural power of perception or sense of beauty in objects, antecedent to all custom, education or example " ( see Inquiry, etc., sects.

The term is used to describe both the Pure Land soteriology of Mahāyāna Buddhism, which may be better understood as Pure Land traditions, and the separate Pure Land sects that developed in Japan ; in other countries and times, it formed part of the basis of Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions.

" ( a lecture in a series related to the sociology of new religious movements, a term Hadden uses to include both cults and sects ) as follows:

During the First and Second Indochina Wars, members of Cao Đài ( along with several other Vietnamese sects, such as Hòa Hảo ) were active in political and military struggles, both against French colonial forces and Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam.

Even though most Assamites claim independence from the sects, they still collaborate with both the Camarilla and the Sabbat whenever such an alliance suits their purposes.

Conversely, certain Jewish Christian sects, including the Cerinthians, recognized Mosaic law as both practicable and necessary.

According to both the Nizari and Mustaali Shia sects, he is the sixth Imam.

However in recent years both Chinese Mahayana and South East Asian Theraveda sects are gaining popularity.

The strength of various sects varies greatly in different regions of the country, with rural parts of the South ( except Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, and the Hispanic community, which both consist mainly of Catholics ), having many evangelicals but very few Catholics, while urbanized areas of the north Atlantic states and Great Lakes, as well as many industrial and mining towns, are heavily Catholic, though still quite mixed, especially due to the heavily Protestant African-American communities.

Her religious enthusiasm, peculiarity of views and disregard of all sects raised both zealous persecutors and warm adherents.

While both the sects were claiming theirs should be the practice followed in the temple, the English administrators in India has deep rooted belief that old ways were the only solution to preserve tranquility.

The Iranian government, especially in its post-1979 Revolutionary Islamist form, is highly suspicious of all Christian sects not native to Iran, namely the Assyrian Church of the East and the Armenian Apostolic Church, both of which have been present in the lands of the Persian Empire since the 4th Century, A. D.

Muhsin's martyrdom is widely documented by renowned scholars across eras of both the sects as is evident from the following list:

Among the oft-quoted lines from this 1973 Manifesto are, " No deity will save us ; we must save ourselves ," and " We are responsible for what we are and for what we will be ," both of which may present difficulties for members of certain Christian, Jewish, and Muslim sects, or other believers in doctrines of submission to the will of an all-powerful God.

The sects both disappear from the historical record after this reference.

They recommended that both sects.

At the time, Tibetan schools of thought had become very isolated, and both Wangpo and Jamgon Kongtrul were instrumental in re-initiating dialogue between the sects.

They are predominantly Shaivites but Vaishnavites are also found among the community and intermarriage is allowed between both sects.

The Chronicon Urspergense ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores, xxiii, 376-377 ) mentions the Humiliati as one of the two Waldensian sects and a decretal promulgated in 1184 by Pope Lucius III at the Council of Verona against all heretics condemns both the " Poor Men of Lyons " and " those who attribute to themselves falsely the name of Humiliati ".

Even in the neighborhood of the Earth, where information has been obtained both directly and indirectly, the derived flux values vary by at least four orders of magnitude.

It was nevertheless almost incredible that four years after Yalta there should be a complete split over Germany, with hot heads on both sides planning to use the Germans against their former allies, and with Nazi-minded Germans expecting to recover their power by fighting on one side or the other.

Thomas Rotelli, head of Rhode Island Incinerator Service, Inc., said four of the company's eight trucks were making collections with both newly hired and regular workers.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

The numeral system came to be known to both the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, whose book On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals written about 825 in Arabic, and the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi, who wrote four volumes, " On the Use of the Indian Numerals " ( Ketab fi Isti ' mal al -' Adad al-Hindi ) about 830.

This was in marked contrast to the four attempts at political union between 1606 and 1689, which all failed owing to a lack of political will in both kingdoms.

This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.

The four sculptural groups at the base of the Arc are The Triumph of 1810 ( Cortot ), Resistance and Peace ( both by Antoine Étex ) and the most renowned of them all, Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 commonly called La Marseillaise ( François Rude ).

* " Native Experience " A four part television documentary series about the impact of oil and mineral development on the Native cultures of Alaska, dealing in particular with the historical background leading up to ANCSA and the experiences, memories and perceptions of both natives involved in the lands claim and their descendants today in rural Alaska.

Due to recorded predictions of the destruction of the temple, the Gospel of Mark is believed by many critical scholars to have been composed around or shortly after the fall of Jerusalem due to prophecies assumed to be ex post facto regarding the destruction of the temple, and both traditional and critical scholarly consensus maintains that it was the first written of the four canonical gospels.

However, it is also possible to divide the book into three parts rather than four by combining the sections treating David and Solomon, since they both ruled over a combined Judah and Israel, unlike the last section that contains the chronicle of the Davidic kings who ruled the Kingdom of Judah alone.

It is a rather short book, in both Jewish and Christian scripture, consisting of only four chapters.

The record and its key can both be up to four gigabytes long.

Both versions are initiated by a bid of four notrump ( 4NT ), and the entire family of conventions may be called Blackwood 4NT in both versions, or Key Card 4NT in the key card variation.

The United States National Research Council released its latest Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs in 2010, and 23 of the 24 graduate programs of Caltech were ranked within the top four programs in the nation in their size quartile as determined by both the R95 and S95 rankings.

The church has an open canon which includes four scriptural texts: the Bible ( both Old and New Testaments ), the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.

Of the four, this is the least often used, in both theory and practice.

A concept that anticipates both the four classical elements of Empedocles and Aristotle's transmutation of the four elements into one another.

Cnidarians are classified into four main groups: the almost wholly sessile Anthozoa ( sea anemones, corals, sea pens ); swimming Scyphozoa ( jellyfish ); Cubozoa ( box jellies ); and Hydrozoa, a diverse group that includes all the freshwater cnidarians as well as many marine forms, and has both sessile members such as Hydra and colonial swimmers such as the Portuguese Man o ' War.

It involves four balls teamed in pairs, with both balls going through every hoop for one pair to win.

Without a long reliever or emergency starter on the playoff roster, Hargrove started both Bartolo Colón and Charles Nagy in games four and five on only three days rest.

The first single " Better Be Home Soon " peaked at number two on both Australian and New Zealand singles charts and reached top 50 In the US, though the following four singles were less successful.

If both criticism and translation apply to a single title, the number expands into four lines.

Chris Morgan and Brian Holland, both with drug offense histories, had abruptly departed for Oceanside, California, four days after the bodies were discovered.